Chapter 2
CHAPTER 2
Sirius woke up with little Harry snuggled into his chest, slowly rising and falling with each breath that he took. Then Sirius felt it, ick…wet diaper. Slowly he woke up and got up and changed a sleepy Harry and a still sleepy Sirius. Yawning Sirius walked downstairs and placed Harry in the travel cot with a still sleeping Neville. As soon as they knew the other was near they rolled over and snuggled up to each other. Then the two of them fell deeply back to sleep again.
“I don’t know what this connection they have is but it is so much like a twin thing it is ridiculous. I have seen twins that aren’t that close.” Sirius chuckled. Frank nodded, as he sipped his coffee.
“I know what you mean, Neville can tell the minute that Harry enters the house, he calms right down and just snuggles down and waits for Harry to get to him and go to sleep. And he’s like a Harry magnet, if he is in a separate room, Harry immediately wants to be where ever Neville is. They play together no matter what they are playing, which ever one started playing first the other will join in, there is no fuss, no argument, just ‘hey cool we are going to be playing building blocks’, or ‘yeah we’re playing dragons!’, or maybe ‘hooray, we are playing with Teddy today!’, all the same to them no fuss, no muss. The second one always just joined in doing what ever the first one was doing, until the first one tired of doing that then it was the second ones chance to pick the activity.
Who knows who picked their way of doing things but it works for them, and it was fair and logical, no one gets their feelings hurt, no one gets left out or upset, it just works. And they aren’t even two years old yet.
Sirius shook his head at the intelligence of the two little ones as they played castle. Building the castle block by block and making each block fit where it was suppose to go. Together they made it work. Together.
Harry sat there on the floor and wanted to put a block up high but couldn’t reach it, he struggled and struggled but it was too high. He almost gave up, but he looked at the block in his hand and frowned then the block began to float in mid air. Soon the block was making it’s way to the tower that he wanted to place it at and plink it was there and in place.
Neville watched Harry do this and put a block in his hand and frowned at it then looked at it real hard then sure enough the block began to float as well, up, up, up, it went to stack on top of the one that Harry had just placed there. Grinning Neville raised his arms above his head and let out a little yell as did Harry. Both very proud of each other. Then it became a game of who could stack the blocks higher, it was doing great, almost seven foot tall tower of blocks… until Salem… Alice’s cat, charged at the tower and knocked it down. Which brought about a round of tears and blocks being thrown at a certain black and white tom cat.
Sirius and Remus, Frank and Alice, had all watched the boys build their tower block by block, holding their breath as each block was placed, and finally breathing as the block was added to the stack successfully. When the tower came down they didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. They ended up laughing due to the dodging cat that was squalling and running everywhere to get away from the flinging blocks. Alice finally went and rescued Salem, and took him out of the room and put him in the library where he didn’t have to worry about things like towers and flying blocks. Poor kitty.
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“I don’t know Frank, I hate to be a burden on you guys.” Sirius said as he sipped on his tea. They had been there three days and they were already talking about moving in.
“You’re not a burden, if anything you guys ease a burden. Neville can barely sleep without Harry, and having you two here means twice the baby sitters so that’s half the burden. We can actually go out and do something on our own if we want. Oh I know we could ask mom to watch Neville if we had to, but all he does is cry the entire time we are gone when we do. She thinks he is some form of mentally retarded Squib or some such thing. She rarely has anything nice to say about him. She thinks we spoil him and that he is a bit touched in the head and that is the reason he always cries when she has him. Not that he simply doesn’t like her. Like every baby is suppose to like her or something. Alice freaked out the first time she suggested that Neville was a squib. I thought my sweet little wife was going to drop a house on her or something.”
Remus, the more familiar with muggle literature of the two, caught the reference to the Wizard of Oz but Sirius was totally clueless.
“Look, let’s just say there is plenty of space at Longbottom Hall and Neville wouldn’t be as happy without Harry around. So quit arguing about it and just agree to move in for a while. It’s not like it’s forever, ten to twenty years should do it.” Frank laughed at his own joke. Until he got this real serious look about him.
“Someone breached the east wards, they didn’t break the the wards but they triggered the proximity alarms. Find Alice and the boys, get them into the front parlor that is the only one with a floo connection. Floo over to Mother’s and wait there, I’ll put the place on lockdown and notify Amelia then follow behind you.” Frank said then turned and rush out of the room.
Sirius and Remus rushed out of the gentlemen’s study and headed to the the nursery where Alice and the boys were, each one grabbed a baby and told Alice to grab a prep-baby bag that they always had full and ready to leave at a moments notice, fully stocked with appropriate clothing, diapers, food, milk and a few toys, just in case. They always had a few of them sitting around the house just in case of emergencies.
Alice grabbed the bag and raced after Sirius and Remus, not even pausing to ask questions. Being a Auror and going through Auror training taught you when to question and when to follow orders, and this looked like a damn good time to follow orders.
The three of them raced into the front parlor but found that it was already occupied by four others; Bellatrix Lestrange, Barty Crouch Jr, Rodolphus Lestrange, and Rabastan Lestrange, were there waiting for them. Sirius skidded to a halt and had his wand in hand before you could blink but Bellatrix was faster and a red streak blazed by him just missing him by inches.
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t my wittle cousin Sirius. Come out to pway did woo.” Damm Bellatrix and her stupid baby talk Sirius thought.
Sirius handed Harry over to Remus and then put himself between Remus and the rest of them, “Get the Hell out of here Bella, why you still can!” Sirius aimed his wand at Bellatrix’s head and waited for her to so much as twitch.
She twitched, and soon flashes of light were streaking this way and that around the room. Remus took both the babies and rushed into the study and put them into the study and closed the door. Then rushed back to the fire fight between Sirius, Alice and the others. Remus got there just as Bellatrix shot a cruciatus curse at Alice who hit her knees at the force of the blow. Alice screamed as the curse ripped through her body. Feeling every pain sensor trigger at once, she tried to fight it, but it was no use, the curse was too strong. She fell to the floor screaming.
Harry and Neville were just across the hall in the study when they heard Alice’s screams. They looked at each other to see what they should do, “Sop it?” Harry asked looking at Neville. Neville nodded, “Sop it.” A look of pure determination on his face.
Ok the first obstacle they had was the door to the room was shut. Harry kept looking at the door nob over his head and trying to figure out how he could reach it without being quite tall enough, he was thinking about the blocks problem and then he felt a tug on his rompers and looked over to Neville.
Neville was pointing to the little cat door that was at the bottom of the big door, that Alice insisted be placed in all of the doors. Not wanting Salem to get locked in a room and forgotten somewhere and end up starving to death or something. So Neville went over to the little cat flap and got down on his knees and poked his head through, surprising enough his whole body could make it though, maybe it was a dog flap and not a cat flap or something, or maybe it was magical and would resize itself depending on what was being sent through it, Harry would have to think about it another time, now was definitely not the time.
Neville and Harry raced down the hallway to the Parlor and peaked into the room. Sirius was exchanging curses with Rabastan and Rodolphus, Remus was exchanging fire with Barty, and Alice was being held under the cruciatus by Bellatrix. While the light show was pretty the only thing the boys knew was that the lights hurt so don’t get hit by the lights. And it was the sticks that made the lights. Also they didn’t have any sticks. Now what could they do?
Harry thought for a moment then held his hand out and focused real hard and all the sudden a little yellow ball was in his hand. A yellow ball of light. Just like what the others were making out of their sticks, Harry threw his ball of light at the scary woman’s face. Scary woman shrieked and dropped her stick and grabbed her face, screaming. Neville saw the scary woman drop her stick and he rushed over to pick it up, then taking Harry’s hand again with a look of determination he pointed the stick at Bellatrix and shouted out “Bad kitty! Naughty” the next thing you knew there was the terror of Voldemort’s followers was flying backwards across the room and was now stuck to a wall about four foot off the ground. The funny part was that Frank, Amelia Bones and six of her Aurors got to witness the ‘Bad Kitty’ shoot across the room’ and smack into the wall under the power of a couple of sixteen month olds with a wand.
“What the Bloody HELL!” Exclaimed one of the Aurors.
“Watch your language, there are children present.” Amelia stated as she reached down and took the wand from Neville and said “I’ve got the ‘bad kitty’ now boys why don’t you go over there and watch everything from the side lines hmm? Johnson watch these two, keep them out of trouble.”
They could still hear the exchange of curses from within the parlor so the rest of the Aurors raced in and in a matter of minutes it was over with. The Aurors had Crouch Jr, Rabastan and Rodolphus in a body bind faster than you could blink when they were focused on what Sirius and Remus where doing from the front. When Amelia and Frank told them what happened to Bellatrix while they were having the Medic look over Alice.
“Bad kitty?” Sirius asked looking totally confused.
“Naughty?” Remus repeated, looking equally bewildered.
“Yep. They are still trying to unstick her from the wall too. Go look at her.” Frank pointed to Bellatrix who was spread eagle against the wall and the three Aurors that were trying to remove her from the wall whom she was currently having a rather heated discussion with.
“Perhaps you two handsome young men would like to help me take the Bad Kitty off the wall so we can take her out of here?” Amelia tried.
Harry looked at her and stated, “Bad Kitty, bad.”
Then Neville nodded and stated, “Bad Kitty, naughty.”
“I know she is bad, and naughty, that is the reason that I need to take her with us so that she can’t hurt anyone else.” Amelia stated.
Harry and Neville looked at one another for a moment then looked over to where Bellatrix was plastered against the wall, and nodded. So the two of them stepped across the room to stand in front of her once again. Amelia gave them a stick again, (Bellatrix’s wand) the first thing they did was Harry took the stick and said “Bad Kitty, play nite nite.” Then all the shouting and swearing and vulgarities that were coming out of her mouth suddenly stopped. Bellatrix was hanging there limp, fast asleep. Much to the astonishment of the others in the room.
Then Harry handed the stick to Neville and he pointed it at the Bad Kitty and said “Bad Kitty Go”, With that Bellatrix dropped from the wall and into the arms of the two waiting officers who were astounded to say the least.
“ ‘Bad Kitty Go’, and we tried everything in the books and even a few that weren’t in the books yet. Geez.” Edwards commented as he lifted the out of it Bellatrix Lestrange onto a stretcher and pushed it out of the room.
“That wasn’t as bad as ‘Bad Kitty, play nite nite.’ I can’t wait to tell her when she wakes up that it was a two year old that knocked her out. I bet she will go apocalyptic, her ego…oh yeah. We are going to hear her screeching from booking.” Dawlish stated shaking his head. ‘Bad kitty, play nite nite’…chuckle, he couldn’t help it . He had to get those two kids working for the force when they were bigger, they would be a riot, and unbeatable… if they could take on Bellatrix Lestrange at the age of sixteen months, and win.
With that Amelia rewarded the boys with some biscuits and milk for taking care of the Bad Kitty, and being so brave. They didn’t understand the last part but they did understand biscuits and Bad Kitty so they let it slide.
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“It has been four days and none of the specialist have been able to wake her. Not even the Department of Mysteries guys could do it when they took a crack at her. It’s been verified she is just sleeping though nothing out of the norm, not unconscious, no coma, nothing like that…just sleeping.” Shackelbolt said, he was new to the station and Bones liked his work, so he became her assistant as soon as the position became available.
Amelia Bones was not having a good day, they had three wanted felons in her holding cells and one of the most wanted in Britain; sleeping away in her cell that they were unable to question and no one was able to wake her up. “Well what do you suggest? We have tried everything we have available to us and nothing seems to work.”
“Not everything Ma’am.” He said with a thoughtful look. Kingsley Shackelbolt was a tall black man that preferred to shave his head and enjoyed to were tribal accouterments when available to him. He was just over six foot two and sturdy built, the kind of man you didn’t want to meet in a dark alley any where. But he had a gentle, intelligent nature about him and that is what Bones liked about him, he had brains.
“Alright what do you have in mind?” Amelia’s interests was peaked, she had to admit.
“Well it worked before why not try it again. Potter and Longbottom, the whole ‘Bad Kitty play nite nite’ thing is all over the office. Why not have them come in here and wake her up?”
“Geez. That is why I have you around. Call Frank and Sirius and see if they can bring the boys down here, I hate to have them see this place, but I am not letting her out of a cell at this point.”
“Put her in interrogation room three, cuffed to the table. Then have the boys wake her up, we will be ready to use the veritaserum on her and start with questioning immediately and she will be secure.” Shackelbolt suggested.
“Sounds good, go make the calls. I’ll get her ready.” Amelia smiled and headed out of her office down to the holding cells.
Twenty minutes later Frank Longbottom and Sirius Black came carrying their ‘sons’ into the Auror Headquarters and headed directly into Amelias office. They were met there by Mad Eye Moody, Kingsley Shackelbolt and Amelia Bones.
Alastor Moody had heard about these boys and wasn’t going to let an opportunity of seeing them in action pass him us so he decided to tag along.
“Moody! Long time no see. Great to see you! Thought you were doing training and recruiting now old friend.” Sirius smiled and held out his hand that didn’t have a Harry in it.
Moody looked at the sixteen month old little boys and at Frank and Sirius and stated, “I may be here for some recruiting if what I hear about these two are even half correct.”
“It’s all correct. Captured Bellatrix LeStrange and had her incapacitated until help got there to take her in. Just the two of them with Bella’s own wand at that. Neville, Frank’s son stuck her to a wall and then Harry, James’ son, my godson, put her to sleep so they could transport her. And Neville took her off the wall. Simple as that.”
“It was beautiful Alastor, you would have loved it. I can get you the memory and you can see the whole thing.” Frank volunteered with a grin.
“You do that, I don’t believe half of what I’ve heard coming out of these idiots mouths. Something about ‘Bad Kitty’.” Moody chuckled.
“That’s what the boys call her. ‘Bad Kitty’. Don’t know why, but it seems to fit and it works so….” Frank shrugged.
Amelia chuckled at the memory of what happened and motioned for the group to follow her, “We are heading to interrogation room three. We have her secured there.”
The group walked down the halls to the interrogation rooms until they got to number three, and they went in and found the ‘bad kitty’ cuffed to the table in front of her. Both Harry and Neville took one look and gasped “Bad Kitty” they exclaimed.
“It’s alright boys see she is cuffed to the table with these big metal bracelets they won’t let her get loose, she can’t hurt you, but we need her awake so we can ask her questions.” Amelia stated.
Frank and Sirius sat the boys down on the ground so the had a handed them Bellatrix’s wand since that is what they had used each time before.
This time Harry had the wand and looked doubtfully at Bellatrix but he pointed the wand at her an said “Bad kitty Up.” And the next thing you know Bellatrix was once again wide awake and cussing and shrieking profanities at everyone. “Bad Kitty No Hiss!” Harry said and suddenly the room was quiet again although Bellatrix was wide awake and her mouth was moving, no sound was coming out.
Mad Eye watched this all with more than a little bit of surprise. He had known what they had done to try and bring about the LeStrange bitch but nothing had worked, not even the DoM had been able to get her wake and these two toddlers had done it just by saying ‘Bad Kitty Up!’. And making her silent by saying ‘Bad Kitty No Hiss’, this was making his false eye twitch.
Shackelbolt knelt down to where he was even with the boys and began to whisper to them. “Boys we kinda need the bad kitty to hiss, we need to ask her questions and she has to answer them for us. We put a special medicine on her tongue and she will then answer our questions honestly. See?”
“Eeewww. Mecine..,” The boys leaned in close together and whispered for a minute and began to giggle then looked over to the silently shouting Bad Kitty. Then they turned and started to stick their tongues out at her and make faces at her giggling the whole time. Harry passed the wand over to Neville and stuck his tongue out real far and said ‘Nah Nah Nah.’ To the ‘Bad Kitty’ well she couldn’t let that stand so she did the same. Neville waved his wand and said “Bad Kitty Stop!” and Bellatrix was frozen in that position with her tongue out and staring at the two boys trying to figure out what was going on.
Both boys looked up to Mr. Shackelbolt and said “Like that?”
Shackelbolt laughed and took the bottle of Veritaserum and dropped three drops on her tongue. Then said. “Exactly like that boys. Now can you unstick her and make it to where she can hiss again?”
Neville looked at the Bad Kitty for a moment then nodded “Bad Kitty Go!” He waved the wand. Then he passed the wand over to Harry and Harry pointed it at Bellatrix and said “Bad Kitty Hiss!” With that Bellatrix sat back in the seat and had this dazed look about her, Moody could tell it was the effects of the Veritaserum. The boys had done it. No fuss, no muss, just simple three or four word commands and it was done…with her own wand too. He was definitely going to have to recruit both these boys when they get older. And keep an eye on them while they are growing up too.
Sirius took the wand from Harry and gave it back to Shackelbolt and then picked up Harry. Frank reached down and picked up Neville and they turned and started out. “I think this little adventure deserves ice cream, what do you say?”
“Yeah! Tice tream!” The boys loved that cold sweetness, messy as it was. They didn’t know what they did to deserve it but it didn’t matter, they were getting a goodie, and they were going to enjoy every sticky minute of it.
“Thanks guys. This makes our job a whole lot easier. If we need kitty control again, we’ll call.” Amelia joked.